CLIENT WORK

As a creative producer, director-for-hire, writer, editor and cinematographer, I collaborate with production companies, filmmakers, NGO’s, and broadcasters. Clients include National Geographic, Meta, Google, PBS, Kartemquin Films, Stanford University and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. My work has been broadcast widely on networks and streamers (i.e. Netflix, HBO and PBS), and screened at festivals internationally (including Sundance, Tribeca, Toronto International, and the San Francisco International Film Festival).

How Baseball Transformed Particle Engineering

Produced, Directed, Shot and Edited for Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Jeff Weers found inspiration for a medical breakthrough on a baseball field. His passion for the sport led to a big idea: a new way of getting inhaled medicine past the natural obstacle course of the human mouth and throat to reach the lungs and treat respiratory diseases.

Alive and Well and Right Where He Wants To Be

Produced, Directed, Shot and Edited for KQED Arts

The writer, dancer and musician Brontez Purnell grew up gay in small-town Alabama – an experience he describes as “its own specific brand of horror.” There, he began to learn an important lesson: that making art to document one’s experience is also a very effective method for survival.

Women Veterans Share Stories from the Frontlines on Stage

Produced, Directed, Shot and Edited for KQED Arts

“Stand Ground' is an experimental theater production from the EchoTheater Suitcase project, helps participants work through the traumas of working in combat zones. Features an all-female cast of veteran and non-veteran women warriors sharing their personal stories. 

Torn Fabric

Cinematographer. Doc short – Directed by Jason Cohen for Sundance Now

“Torn Fabric” portrays two opposing viewpoints on flag burning. Joey Johnson is a flag burning activist who was the defendant in the landmark 1989 Supreme Court case that made flag burning legal.  The Corrals are a gold star family whose son died in combat in Afghanistan. Now the two sides come together for an emotional meeting to try to understand each other's clashing beliefs.

Screened: 2018 Sundance Film Festival

We Are the Radical Monarchs

Cinematographer – Directed by Linda Knowlton

The Radical Monarchs are an Oakland-based alternative to the Girl Scouts - specifically for girls of color, ages 8-13. The girls earn badges for units on social justice, such as Black Lives Matter, Radical Beauty, Disability Justice, and being an LGBTQ ally. This feature documentary follows the dynamic co-founders as they face challenges in growing the organization, both before and after the 2016 election. A short version was initially filmed and distributed by the Guardian.

Unsettled

Cinematographer – Directed by Tom Shepard, Open Door Productions

Unsettled brings to life the names, faces, and tumultuous backstories of LGBTQ+ individuals forced to flee intense persecution in their home countries. Landing in San Francisco and girded with new hope, their challenges begin to multiply: finding new homes, new jobs, and new identities in the country’s most cost-prohibitive region forces these new immigrants to dig deep just so they can get by.

Hard Earned

Cinematographer – Produced by Kartemquin Films

Hard Earned, a six-part documentary series for Al Jazeera America, follows five families around the country to find out what it takes to get by on eight, ten or even 15 dollars an hour. The series turns an intimate lens a group of 21st century American dreamers. They fight against all odds to thrive, when it takes everything they have to simply survive.

Life & Life 

Cinematographer – Directed by N.C. Heikin

After serving 35 years in prison for murder, musician Reggie Austin faces an uncertain future back on the streets as he tries to rebuild a life and reconnect with his family. Armed with little else but his heart and his music he must find a way to survive.